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Proposed is a programming parser that accepts code
written in RTF, HTML, LaTeX, or some other rich text
format. The formatting would serve as another form of
documentation and wouldn't have meaning in the end
result; it would only be stripped to plain text internally as
in the current art.
Notepad++
and Vim accomplish this to some extent now,
but the color-coding is from the context and not (by
default) user-defined.
I thought of this while writing some code for some
database work, and I thought it would be nice to highlight
everything within a transaction as one color and everything
outside of the scope of a transaction in another.
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Could be useful for keeping track of your brackets, too. You could change font every time you open one, and change back up the chain when you close one.
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"Thanks, I used Comic Sans." |
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If implemented right, this could be really nice. Make sure it is compatible with existing automerge source control tools, and also somewhat viewable in a standard text editor for debugging when th toolds fail. |
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This would allow me to insert my secret back door into the software by adding code formated as white on white in a small font on a "blank" line. [+] |
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I'd like a font that could convey "This is an ironic WHILE TRUE; I'm making you read two thirds of the way down the loop to find the exit condition *for dramatic effect*, mkay?" |
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In (Microsoft) BASIC on the Commodore 64, you could insert "escaped" characters into REM statements that would render all the following code in whatever colour you liked when you listed a program. I remember seeing some programmers try to hide embedded passwords etc by turning the lines in which the text was hidden to the default dark-blue of the background screen. |
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There was also a way to edit the pointers to the basic listing routine so that typing LIST would bojax the system altogether, more a case of WTF programming. |
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Good lord [zen...] I remember that! Heh, heh. Bun that anno! |
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Yes, but a simple POKE 53281,0 turns the background black, revealing the dark blue text. Amusingly, the same kind of cheap tricks are used today to obfuscate web pages. |
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I have great experience of WTF programming, if that's any help? |
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